Episode # 154 - Melodrama & Mayhem on Main Street
This episode looks at the current production of the theatre company Woman Seeking…, which is a program of six short plays from the 1920s written by three women playwrights — Louise Bryant, Alice Gerstenberg, and Susan Glaspell. nytheatre.com’s Tim Cusack talks to Christine Mosere, who is the artistic director of Woman Seeking…, and actresses Rhonda Ayers and Vivian Meisner about these playwrights and their works.
In addition to specific discussion about the plays being presented, there’s a lot of information about the social and political context of these plays and the playwrights’ careers.
Louise Bryant is probably best known as the lover of John Reed (Diane Keaton played her in the movie Reds). Susan Glaspell was one of primary movers in the creation of the off-Broadway movement in the early 20th century.
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